Peter Friess, who headed the Tech Museum since 2006, announced that he will be resigning in March after a successful tenure marred by controversy. He and his wife Birgit Binner plan to launch a new startup selling luxury items to the wealthy.
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Groupon has reportedly decided to reject Goog’es takeover bid, hoping to increase its valuation.Based on other buyout rejections of the past few years, it can go either way for the coupon giant. It may have worked for Facebook, but it didn’t work for Yahoo or AOL.
San Jose State University has just received a $1.22 million State Department grant to train a new generation of Afghan journalists at Herat University in western Afghanistan. The funding will be used to develop a journalism curriculum for use in Herat University and a series of websites for students, focusing on radio and television journalism o hone their reporting skills and share ideas across countries and cultures.
Thousands of people braved the nippy autumn weather and ominous threats of rain by weather watchers to attend Sunday’s Holiday Parade in downtown San Jose. It was all they expected and more. There were 19 bands, 14 floats, and ten enormous balloons, all proceeding to the beat of “Toys, Treasures, and Traditions.”
City Manager Debra Figone is urging City Council to accept the 2010 COPS Hiring Program Grant, amounting to $7,187,984. If the city accepts the program, sixteen full time police officers who faced layoffs may be spared, at least for another four years.
It hasn’t even been officially announced yet, but Google’s rumored purchase of Groupon for $5-6 billion is already coming under fire from observers. It raises questions about Google’s relationship with Facebook and can add fuel to the fire as the search engine giant faces a growing number of anti-trust investigations.
Facebook is getting big, very big, and its current digs in Palo Alto may be a little too small for it. So Facebook is looking for a new home, and it may not be in Palo Alto, or even Santa Clara County for that matter. One possible new home is the Oracle campus in Menlo Park.
Congress’s failure to extend unemployment benefits is already putting a strain on local food banks, with Christmas right around the corner. The demand for services has shot up 70 percent in the last year alone, and it is expected to get much higher as more people lose their unemployment benefits this month.
Santa Clara County is handing out Get Out of Jail Free cards this month to anyone with a misdemeanor warrant for a nonviolent offense or a traffic violation. Until the end of the year, people with warrants against them for nonviolent crimes can simply walk into the local police station, get their citation, and schedule a new court date.
Responding to public demands, the SJPD has agreed to provide crime prevention specialists to neighborhoods in West San Jose.Crime specialists were cut back from certain neighborhood, even though crime was on the rise. Part of the problem that the residents face is that so many of the crimes go unreported. A recent survey found that two-thirds of the residents did not report crimes that they knew about.
